Drug Schedules
Which drug schedule is the most illegal?
Schedule 1
All prescription drugs should be taken until the bottle is gone.
False
Withdrawals
Symptoms a body feels from detoxing from drugs
--% of Americans who meet the clinical criteria for addiction started using substances before the age of 18
90
Which drug Schedule is available at stores?
Schedule 5
Driving after taking prescription pain meds can give you the same legal and physical consequences as driving drunk
True - You still can get a DUI and endanger yourself.
Enabler
Someone that makes it easier for someone to do a drug even if not on purpose
When an addict no longer has an opioid, they may feel...
Which drug Schedule(s) are prescription pain kills in?
Schedules 2, 3 and 4.
1 = no prescription available
5= no prescription needed
What kind of prescription drug is the most abused?
Opioids - Pain Killers
Tolerance
When the body gets used to a Drug so that more is needed for the same effect
Prescription drugs are ____ illegal drugs
Safer than - More dangerous than - Just as dangerous
MORE
Which drug schedule is OxyContin in?
Schedule 2
4 out of 5 people who use the street drug ____ began by misusing prescription pain medications
Heroin
Methadone
Used as a substitute drug in the treatment of morphine and heroin addiction.
Name 3/4 ways people abuse drugs
Too much
Too Often
Wrong Reason
Wrong Way
What is true for ONLY schedule 1 drugs?
They have no accepted Medical use/all hallucinogens
Match these three drugs with the percentage of 9th graders who have abused them IN CALIFORNIA
Alcohol - Marijuana - Opioids
23.1% - 16.8% - 32.3%
Alcohol 32.3% Marijuana 23.1% Opioids 16.8%
Narcan
A drug designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose
If a parent is addicted to drugs, their child will be # more likely to become an addict themselves than their peers.
A. 2x's B. 4x's C. 5x's D.10x's
4